As part of UNICEF Innocenti's workshop on social protection in humanitarian settings, Manuel Rodriguez Pumarol of UNICEF Jordan presented his views on the Hajati Programme. For more on this workshop and to access the seven papers released at the event, visit: https://www.unicef-irc.org/article/1829-evidence-on-social-protection-in-contexts-of-fragility-and-forced-displacement.html

1. Cash Transfer
HAJATI PROGRAMME
Jordan Country Office
“My Needs, Our Future”

2. CONTEXT BACKGROUND
As of 31 December 2017,
there were 5,481,262
registered Syrian refugees and
4,407,000 vulnerable and
impacted host community
members across the region:
The total number of registered Syrians in Jordan as per June 2018 is
666,113
Including 539,646 refugees living out of the
camps (81%); 52% of these are children under
18 years of age.
Additionally, Jordan hosts 65,922 Iraqi refugees
(32.5% are children) as well as 2.1 million long-
staying registered Palestinian refugees.

3. 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
Child Cash Grant Hajati-Cash for Education
Host
Communities
HAJATI BACKGROUND
• Child Cash Grant (CCG) Experience 2015-2017
• Overseas Development Institute (ODI) - Independent Monitoring Report
Recommendations:
- Scale up UNICEF CCG with cash+ components
- Introduce behavior changing activities
- Scale up home visits, case management and accountability aspects
- Bring together Syrian and Jordanian Children

4. UNICEF Cash Transfers – Current Programmes
Hajati
Programme
•Cash plus approach addressed to increase
enrolling and decrease drop out of children aged
6 to 15 years in targeted double shift schools, by
complementing cash transfers (JOD 20 per child
per month) with linkages with education services
plus behavior change communications, as well as
home visit and case management activities in
synergy with UNICEF’s flagship Programme
Makani.
•Child focused targeting methodology which
targets vulnerable children regardless of their
nationality or registration.

5. Accelerator of accountability
Helpline
RapidPro
Social Media
Cash Transfer
Cash Plus Approach
UNICEF Cash Transfers – Programme Design

6. Demographic
Education Health Care
WASH
Living Conditions
Individual computed at child level
Household Computed Indicators
School attendance
Distance to School
Access to Health Care
Chronical Illness or
disability
Dependency ratio
Social Vulnerability
Source of drinking water
Shared latrine
Type of rental
Dwelling suitability
Food Security
Food Consumption
GEOGRAPHICAL TARGETING HOUSEHOLD TARGETING
Targeting methodology
Identifying vulnerable children at
household level
Enhance synergies with VAF and NAF to
focus on children
PURPOSE
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2
Each household is assigned points on 11
indicators with the rule that the least
vulnerable condition is assigned the
highest points

7. Survey data sent
Calculation of score,
eligibility and payout
Riskmitigation
measures
Original files kept untouched
throughout the whole process in
order to double check
information process with respect
to the original
Cross check the code calculating
the score with two software
during the development of
Bayanati
Check for duplicates within
and between batches
Any change and decisions are
reflected in separate files with a
unique identifier
The modifications are coded so as
to keep the data untouched
Payment list generation
Lists are generated automatically
making sure that only formatting
is required
List Generation

8. Bank
Report
Reconciliation
Monthly
Payment

9. beneficiary list
generation
Hajati DB – accessed by Hajati users on UNICEF level only
Bayanati DB Home visits and referral modules – accessed
by Makani
Registration and
Duplicate check
module
Migrating of
survey data
Scoring/inclu
sion
Monthly Payment
Cash flow &
transaction logs
Daily
Attendance
tracking
List of ind. With
absence >=15
DSS/
Makanai
mapping
HH/individual
Profile
(of absent student)
Referral
Home visits
Module HH
Showing if
prev Home
visits were
conducted
by other
Makani
Bayanati DB – Attendance Module accessed by DSS and Data
Migration by EMIS
Bayanati is the UNICEF web-based data management system which has been
developed and deployed in Jordan to support the real-time monitoring of UNICEF
supported activities
HAJATI MIS

10. Accelerators and Feedback Tools
Rapid Pro
• provides two-way SMS communication platform
with beneficiaries
Helpline:
• Provides communication channel supported by
trained and skilled agents to receive complaints,
troubleshoot, and refer
Mobile
Money:
• Pilot preparation phase

11. Knowledge production and advocacy products
Monitoring and Evaluation
School Year
Impact
evaluation
Report of
Withdrawal 1
week after
transfer
Monthly
report of
attendance
Baseline
survey
Mid Year follow
up survey
Focus group
discussions
Process efficiency and effectiveness indicators

12. 48% Per Cent
Held Back
32% Per Cent
Held Back
• From Age 11 onwards, attendance rate declines much faster
among Eligible Students
• Due to child labour, especially in upper age ranges; safety
concerns; perception of school, distance
• If Hajati manages to raise enrolment level to the same level of
ineligible families, an additional 3,495 children would be back to
school; represented by the pink area
• Up to an additional 8,241 children can be expected back in school
if Hajati overperforms into the blue area
Attendance Drop-Off
Grade Retention
•Graph plots age against grade level
•Overlaid lines indicate correct ideal grade
•Eligible students are more likely to be held
back
•Due to missing school because of crisis and
having to repeat grades due to excessive
absence
Baseline Report

13. School
Attendance
•Much more
likely to drop out
from age 11
onwards
•48% of attending
students are
held back by at
least a year
Child
Protection
•1.8x as likely for
young women to
be married early
•Much more
likely for boys
under 16 to be
working
Living
Situation and
WASH
•2/5 have 5 or
more people
living in a single
room
•1.5x as likely to
experience
water quality
issues
Disability and
Health
•4x as likely for
children to be
disabled
•80% of
households have
at least one child
with respiratory
illness
Food
Consumption
Score
•34% of
population with
poor FCS rating
•3.5x as likely to
have ‘poor’ FCS
rating
Multi-Dimensional Vulnerability
Baseline Report

14. • The child-focused targeting methodology effectively ranks households by
vulnerability
• In particular, it targets those exposed most to the risk of school drop-out
• Refugees are more exposed to vulnerability compared to Jordanians
• While sustained investment is justified for refugees, other nationalities should be
considered and Jordanians living in comparable situations must be assisted to avoid
further social capital erosion
• Given the ongoing funding shortage the programme has a financial gap of
US$7,000,000, which implies Hajati will need to excluded 45,000 beneficiaries
children starting in September 2018, to downgrade the targeted population to
10,000.
• The first monitoring results will be presented by June 2018 and an Impact Evaluation
is planned for the coming school year.
• Institutional strengthening of National Aid Fund (NAF) and child cash grant for the
most vulnerable children in Jordan.
Broad
Vulnerable
Population
Hajati Summary and Way Forward
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0.5
1
1.5
2
2.5
3
3.5
4
$Millions
Hajati Monthly Budget 2017-2018
Eligible and Paid Running Costs (Data, Plus component, HR, Bank, Helpline) Eligible Waiting List
Effective
Methodology
Next Steps

15. HAJATI IMPACT EVALUATION
Aims to understand the effects of (dis)continuing the overall Hajati program, but also the
effects of discontinuing (sub-) components of the program. Ultimately, information on
the impact of discontinuing Hajati components could help inform programming that
effectively improves education outcomes of vulnerable children at minimum cost.
•1. How does
(dis)continuation of the
Hajati cash component
affect children?
•2. How does
(dis)continuation of the
Hajati plus component
affect children?
•3. How does
(dis)continuation of the
combined Hajati
package affect children?
The impact
evaluation
aims to
answer the
following
three
questions:

16. Institutional strengthening of National Aid Fund (NAF)
Establishing a cash transfer pilot programme
Enhancing monitoring and evaluation systems
Reviewing the cash assistance targeting system and its impact on children
and adolescents
Updating the ICT system for introducing technology for payment system
for cash transfers to disadvantaged Jordanian families with children.
Strengthen institutional capacities for NAF

17. Coordination platforms
Social Protection Technical working group
This group was launched by UNICEF in partnership with the World Bank to guarantee a coordinated approach on the
work different organization have with NAF
Cash For Education
UNICEF started this group in November 2017 given the number of organization and consortium having cash for
education programmes in the country. UNICEF is leading this group which currently meets once a quarter.
BNWG
The Basic Need Working Group is the programmatic forum for all cash programming available in Jordan.
Common Cash Facility
Hajati currently delivers its assistance through the Common Cash Facility (CCF) of which UNICEF is currently co-chair
with UNHCR.